Carl’s Jr has a nifty nutritional calculator / order planner at http://www.carlsjr.com/menu/nutritional_calculator. It lets you fully customize your meal, then lets you print or email your order t...

An odd issue I ran into the other day: I had a Varnish 3 instance that had logic hinging on req.backend.healthy to show a special error page if all the backends were down. That logic inexpliciably ...

Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is an additional layer of protection you can add to your Minecraft server. You should already be relying on SSH keys to access your server, but those keys can be los...

I had cause to call CenturyLink support recently. As one of the troubleshooting steps they seriously claimed that a power strip is not capeable of providing sufficient power to a DSL modem, and tha...

DataDog is a nifty monitoring / statistics gathering system. It is something like a akin to a combination of Graphite / Grafana, but with a social aspect so that your team can attach discussions to...

NewRelic is an exceptionally useful tool for monitoring java applications, or at least those that deal with web or other transational workloads. I tried hooking it up to MineCraft and it doesn’t re...

In the first installment I launched a basic Minecraft service on CentOS7. However, a proper service should not be run from the command line, instead it should be controlled by the system service da...

A new Server This series will go through how to host a MineCraft server, and go totally overboard on the configuration/management of it. I’ll be integrating a variety of management/monitoring tool...

I was looking at EC2 ClassicLink today. It is going to make VPC migrations much easier. Some things I noticed: Connectivity to external-facing ELBs only works if the ELBs have ‘world’ incoming...

PaperTrailApp (Referral link) is a SaaS RSyslog host that currently offers 100MB/mo of capacity free. In setting up my home network and servers I wanted to have my RouterBOARD 750GL send its logs ...